Volume 21 · 540
Private Law 46–90
directing the issue of a duplicate check to Elizabeth D. Thomas, a pensioner of the United States.
Approved May 14, 1880
Statutory text
An Act
directing the issue of a duplicate check to Elizabeth D. Thomas, a pensioner of the United States.
Whereas, the United States pension agent at Detroit, Michigan, on the twenty-ninth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, issued a check, numbered fifty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty- five, drawn on the Second National Bank of Detroit, a United States depository, in favor of Elizabeth D. Thomas, a pensioner residing at Grass Lake, Michigan, for the sum of one thousand four hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy cents, in payment of pension then due said Elizabeth D. Thomas; and
Whereas said check was lost while being transmitted by mail from Detroit to said pensioner at Grass Lake and has not since been found or paid; Therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the. United States of America in Congress assembled
Elizabeth D.
Thomas.
Duplicate check.
Bond.
,
That the pension agent at Detroit, Michigan, be and he is hereby instructed to issue duplicate check numbered, fifty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five, for fourteen hundred and twenty-four dollars and seventy cents in favor of Elizabeth D. Thomas, for one lost in the mail May twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine: Provided, That said Elizabeth D. Thomas shall first execute a bond with good and sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury to hold the United States harmless against the double payment of said check.
Approved, May 14, 1880.